The former lawmaker representing Kaduna Central senatorial district, Shehu Sani on Saturday said insecurity persists in Nigeria because the President is weak to take action.
Sani stated this during a Twitter Spaces session with Daily Trust themed “Insecurity and 2023 General Elections.
According to Sani, if attacks continue across the country and nothing is being achieved, it is the responsibility of the president to remove people in charge of security and bring in new people.
Sani said, “People in the position of leadership are failing and they will keep on failing because we have a president who is too weak to take action on his subordinates.
“If you preside over as a security man, military personnel or intelligence, or you preside over the local government or state and attacks are happening continuously in your place and nothing is being achieved, it is the responsibility of the president to remove such kind of persons and bring new persons.
“Security issues sometimes need things like this. There have been continuous allegations that this terrorism and banditry is being sustained because of the complicit of or collaboration with security agencies.”
The former lawmaker added that no measure has been taken against people who have failed.
He called on the president to be fully in charge of his office.
He added, “You don’t just sit down because you appoint somebody and then things are good. We have seen how prison breaks happened.
“Continuously in the last few years, you kept extending the tenure of the Controller General of the Nigerian prison service. You kept extending the tenure of civil defence chiefs, and immigration chiefs. No result is being achieved. A president must be decisive in taking actions as far as penalising those with responsibilities.”
This article was originally published on Nigeria News